No stories to link to here. Just a simple question. How do you think having NO PRIVACY will affect your life?
Please consider multiple sources such as Govt, Insurance, Employers, Neighbors, Marketers and others I havent listed...

I was listening to a "conservative" talk show host on the way home form work yesterday and his idea was to build the wall AND double the foreign welfare because, he thought, if we give them more money we can prevent immigrants because their countries will be better. :rolleyes:
I was reminded of why I don't listen to talk radio.

The best gift I ever got was the Play Doh Barber Shop but I had the flu that Christmas and the smell of the Play Doh made me vomit. Another year I got the Holly Hobby Easy Bake Oven. I got excited and used up all my cake batter that morning and my mom cut the cord on the oven because she said the cakes were nasty and made me take it outside and put in the playhouse my dad built me. I used the little pans to make mud pies and I would stick them in the broken oven to dry out. I just pretended it baked.
The worst gifts I got were a Bionic Barbie doll. She wasn't pretty and didn't even come with a dress I could use on my nice Barbie. She came in a goofy jogging suit. My stinky brother bought me that and my other worst gift was from another stinky brother. His cheap ass put a chunk of lead in a shoe box and wrapped it up for me. I was so excited. I thought it was gonna be good because it was so heavy.
Once, my dad bought my mom a vacuum cleaner and we (it was dad's idea) took it apart and wrapped it in pieces. My mom was so pissed. I think that was when she gave up on having a nice Christmas and, after that, the gifts only went downhill. I've received everything from canned bread (it's actually not bad) to an old broken wedding clock.
I've tried to put nice gifts under the tree but I want my kids to have a taste of my childhood so I always fill their stockings with crazy shit. I find the best stuff at the Asian Grocery store and Richard's Variety shop. The worst purchases I've made are the Shrimp Flavored Potato Chips (they smelled like rotten shrimp) and the Turkish Delight I bought after reading Narnia with them. It wasn't delightful. I can't believe Edmund sold out his siblings for that shit.

And what, 75% of the top MILLION websites use Google Analytics?
There is more money to be made by selling data they collect on you than to send you a bill. Should WE not be the ones getting PAID to have all our shit tracked if they are making THAT much off of us?

Man ordered to build replica of San Francisco home after illegally demolishing building
A man who illegally demolished a San Francisco house designed by modernist architect Richard Neutra was ordered this week to rebuild it exactly as it was.
The city Planning Commission also ordered Ross Johnston to add a sidewalk plaque telling the entire saga of the house's origins in the 1930s, its demolition and replication.
Johnston purchased the 1936 residence, known as the Largent House, in 2017 for $1.7 million.
Johnston had planned to remodel the 1,300-square-foot home in the Twin Peaks neighborhood and submitted his plans for the two-story house to the city, which mostly kept the first floor intact. His permit was approved.

CRAFT BEER WITH A FREE-MARKET CHARACTER
As the microbrewery trend is seeing a rise everywhere in the world, 2018 saw the launch of the White Collar Brewing in Bucharest, in my native Romania. Behind the already highly acclaimed beers lies an interesting piece of information: the brewery is the entrepreneurial endeavor of an Austrian economist, professor at the Romanian-American University in Bucharest and former Mises Institute fellow, Bogdan Glăvan.
Bogdan’s business started as a passion for craft beers, filling in a gap in a domestic market saturated with mass-produced, bland tasting options. Although he built it alongside his lifelong dedication to scholarship in the tradition of Mises and Rothbard in his academic profession, the two passions are not as separate as you might expect.
First, one of the beers is named “Zero Taxe” (eng. Zero Taxes), a nod to the main policy recommendation of any consistent Rothbardian. Bogdan also recommends it to be enjoyed together with Mises’s Human Action. Some of his customers also subscribe to this view and their recommendations on the brewery’s homepage are equally witty: “ is so good, the government should nationalize it and redistribute it to all its citizens. IPA for the people!”

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/12/18/1952236/turning-off-facebook-location-tracking-doesnt-stop-it-from-tracking-your-location
Companies are ALWAYS trustworthy, but your best friends and family should not be trusted nearly as much as Companies.

Once again, The Stupid Party snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
In 2016, we were looking at majorities in all three branches, repeal of McClure/Volkmer Class III bans, nationwide CCW reciprocity, nationwide Constitutional Carry, among other things.
Just under three years later, we're looking at bans (for real, turn 'em or be arrested bans) on whole classes of accessories, bans on private sales, bans on magazines, punitive taxation and god knows what else the New Bolsheviks will push through next year.

So, if I'm reading this right, she says that's political because you will get "shamed" for taking a week's spa vacation when you can't pay the electric bill.
The enstupidation continues, unabated.
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The only wholesale ban on a whole class of weapons, that is still in place, was signed by Reagan.
Vermont, for hundreds of years, has been one of the most free states in regards to firearms.
Pete Shumlin (R) signed a whole slew of gun restrictions into law last year.

Outrage Sparked as School Kids Now Taught that ‘Boys Can Have Periods Too’—to Be Inclusive
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/school-children-taught-boys-mensturation/
A Brighton primary school will now begin teaching children as young as eight that “trans boys and men and non-binary people may have periods” as part of new guidance on menstruation and sex education.
The instructions were included in the ‘Taking a Period Positive Approach in Brighton & Hove Schools,’ guidelines issued by the local council in early December.
“Period products are provided for all pupils and students who need them and this provision is promoted and known about by all,” the guidance reads, with express intention of reducing the “stigma and shame related to periods.”

Of course, we, the ever fucked taxpayers, get fucked again.
Jury Awards $6 Million
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/jury-awards-6-million-cop-teen/
Kansas City, MO – After sentencing a former Independence police officer to four years in prison for violating the constitutional rights of a minor, a federal judge released the dash cam video revealing the overzealous cop tazing the teen for no reason and brutally slamming his head onto the street. Although the innocent teen went into cardiac arrest, which resulted in oxygen deprivation and brain damage, the aggressive officer can be seen in the video repeatedly using excessive force on the boy’s unresponsive body. Now, four years after this savage act was recorded on video, the victim has been awarded over $6 million in damages.
On Friday, a federal jury awarded Bryce Masters, then 17 years old, more than $6 million in damages for the egregious and despicable act caught on video. During the trial witnesses, recalled that Masters went into cardiac arrest as a result of the assault and nearly died.

Should have made the terms of my wager longer.
Can't wait to see what he'll sign when the New Bolsheviks take over next year.
I'm figuring the "low hanging fruit" first:
1 - Magazine capacity limits and bans.
2 - Bans on private sales without a government background check.

Polar vortex 'could bring freezing Arctic air over the U.S. and send temperatures plummeting within weeks'
Weather researcher say there is a chance of a disrupted polar vortex
A polar vortex is air that rests 60,000 feet above the Arctic Circle
A disruption in vortex would mean Arctic air blanketing Northern Hemisphere
In October, National Weather Service predicted warmer-than-usual winter
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6506599/Polar-vortex-bring-freezing-air-U-S-send-temperatures-plummeting-weeks.html

Hey, check out Men Without Hats S.O.S (ABBA) cover. I love it. I know you appreciate disco so I thought I would call your attention to it. I went to Retro Futura last night and saw them. Really fun show. If they come to your area, go. You will have a blast. Mr A doesn't care for that kind of music and he even had fun. I think he was mostly just enjoying making fun of me for liking gay music but still...he had fun.

Nope. Side effect of being intubated/under general anaesthesia. (and my Vegus nerve was the object of the operation, which directly affects the voice) :/ I've done teaspoons of straight honey, and that does seem to help. ~hugs~

The oft-parroted sound bite – “we need herd immunity”- implies that if ninety five percent of the population can become “immune” to a disease via vaccination, target immunity levels will be met and diseases will either be eradicated or controlled. This sound bite is the most commonly pulled weapon used by the vaccinators, only second to “smallpox and polio were eradicated by vaccination.” “Herd

I realize that truth is a hard pill to swallow, especially in times of universal deceit. Many of us diehard Ron Paul supporters understand, the days of a politician telling the truth is gone.

Dr. Paul has fought the good fight, and I appreciate what he has done for nearly 30 years. He also helped me to understand just how corrupt our systems is. He definitely cured my apathy! If we continue with this complacency all we will get is more of the same. Our liberties have been compromised

A time-honored tradition, every labor day (for 45 years of my life), people from all over the world would watch the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. The guest line up were always filled with great television and movie stars, singers and comics. Before we

Americans' right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why.

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